This is nice! love this
Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
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#12Too bad it doesn't display the keyboard on mobile :-(
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#13Remember to exclude vimium from the site!
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#14Very useful as someone who's trying to use Vim motions more often, thanks!
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#15For reference, here are the supported motions:
case '0': return { type: 'ZERO' };
case '_': return { type: 'START_ROW' };
// --- SEARCH ---
case '/': return { type: 'START_SEARCH' };
case 'n': return { type: 'NEXT_MATCH' };
case 'N': return { type: 'PREV_MATCH' };
// --- MOVEMENT (WASD Removed) ---
case 'h': case 'ArrowLeft': return { type: 'MOVE_CURSOR', dx: -1, dy: 0 };
case 'j': case 'ArrowDown': return { type: 'MOVE_CURSOR', dx: 0, dy: 1 };
case 'k': case 'ArrowUp': return { type: 'MOVE_CURSOR', dx: 0, dy: -1 };
case 'l': case 'ArrowRight': return { type: 'MOVE_CURSOR', dx: 1, dy: 0 };
// --- SKIPS ---
case 'w': return { type: 'NEXT_UNREVEALED' };
case 'b': return { type: 'PREV_UNREVEALED' };
// --- ACTIONS ---
case 'i': case 'Enter': return { type: 'REVEAL' };
case ' ': return { type: 'SMART' };
case 'f': return { type: 'FLAG' };
// --- ADVANCED MOTIONS ---
case '$': return { type: 'MOVE_CURSOR', dx: 999, dy: 0 };
case 'G': return { type: 'GO_BOTTOM' };
case 'g': return { type: 'GO_TOP' };
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#16Love games like this. I used Vim Snake to make the muscle memory for hjkl finally stick in my brain. (I wish you could disable the insert mode toggling -- it's cute but didn't help when I was trying to break the habit of moving my finger up to press W or Up Arrow and remember that everything is in a straight line.)
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#17Very nice, only feedback I have rn is you should keep the board state displayed after you hit a mine. I like to look around the board to see what I missed after making a mistake.
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#18It is common in traditional roguelikes to support vi keys as an alternative to arrow keys. I use that all the time when playing Brogue. Have a great vi keys muscle memory now thanks to that, but I use Emacs and only rarely vi, so it's not doing me much good.
Use EViL mode
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#19This was fun! It would feel a little more intuitive if w/b worked on groups of unrevealed tiles instead of just moving 1 space when you were already on an unrevealed tile. i.e. unrevealed = words, revealed = spaces. That way, you could also use them to meaningfully navigate around unrevealed groups better than using h/l. I also found myself missing "e" to go to the end of a word, apparently I use it more often than "…
That makes a lot of sense regarding `w/b`. I struggled a bit defining a word in the game cells.
I'll add `e` (end of word) support in the next push, too. Thank a lot for the feedback!
Re: Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
#20This is a fun idea and the implementation works pretty well. The only complaint I have is that enter for clearing feels awkward in conjunction with hjkl movement; maybe add (d)elete and (f)lag as alternatives to enter and space to keep everything on the home row without requiring stretching?
That makes a lot of sense, I will try to find alternative for clearing as well!
Now I mainly use `space` key for both chording and flagging. It's the old muscle memory I inherited from playing the classic minesweeper game. One good thing about using the space is that, thumb is always available in vim motions, where other fingers are on the home row.
Thanks for the advise!!